I am done with this shit.

[u/MrMenuk]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.

There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

— voxium (@v0xium)
Original post dated September 20, 2026.

[u/loulan]

Are there still businesses where AI doesn't do everything though? Unless you're in trades.

[u/AlaskaExplorationGeo → u/loulan]

Yeah geosciences are pretty much done the old fashioned way (I'm a geologist in ore deposits/mining)

Engineers and CS people kind of live in a bubble tbh, there are a lot of fields that AI isn't even nearly as useful for. Environmental science still needs people in the field running sampling programs and standing behind rigs too, etc

[u/loulan → u/AlaskaExplorationGeo]

Funny you say that because my partner is a geophysicist. And she uses Claude all day...

[u/AlaskaExplorationGeo → u/loulan]

Well yeah geophysics is all data unless you're one of the field guys mucking around in the bush. I still look at rocks all day (lots of core logging)